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33 MONO FRIENDS OF FRANZ
Craig Tannock’s hipster bar-venue- vegan café (with its own excellent record shop, Monorail) hit its tenth anniversary.
As if to coni rm its status as one of the city’s brightest outposts of indie culture, the celebratory party featured sets from Muscles of Joy and RM Hubbert, plus Franz Ferdinand’s i rst Glasgow show in four years. (DP)
32 GREG MCHUGH CHARACTER ACTOR
DELIVERS
A solid year of consolidation for the Edinburgh-born comic as he reprised two very, very different characters: the fowl-blowdrying Howard in Channel 4’s Fresh Meat and his camp soldier
in the Beeb’s Gary: Tank Commander. He was also very much himself in Mr Whitehall’s comedy travelogue, Hit the Road Jack. (BD)
31 INGLEBY GALLERY (SEE PANEL, BELOW)
30 VICKY FEATHERSTONE
GOING OUT ON A HIGH
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The inaugural artistic director of the National Theatre of Scotland may be moving on to London’s Royal Court, but she’s leaving the national company in rude health. Successes in 2012 included the popular comedy- horror hit An Appointment with the Wicker Man and pulling together the prescient exploration of print journalism, Enquirer, just in time for Leveson. (AR)
INGLEBY GALLERY FINE ART
It’s four years since Edinburgh’s Ingleby Gallery moved premises to Calton Road on the site of the former Venue nightclub, going on to carve out a reputation as one of the most exciting private galleries in the UK. But even by their own high standards, 2012 has been a remarkable year for the Ingleby, with a programme that included acclaimed exhibitions by well-known Scottish artists such as Alison Watt and Ian Hamilton Finlay alongside new work by up- and-coming young talents like Kevin Harman. ‘Two things stick out,’ says co-proprietor Richard Ingleby of his highlights from the past year, ‘visiting Jonathan Owen’s studio to see a newly completed carving and realising that, in the course of a single work, he’d become a world-class artist. And watching happy, smiling people sheltering from the pouring rain, bathed in
the gorgeous light of Callum Innes’ Regent Bridge.’
Another event that i red the public’s imagination, receiving a i ve- star review from this very magazine in the process, was the Ian Hamilton Finlay retrospective, Twilight Remembers, which included a vast range of familiar and recently discovered work from the poet, artist and gardener. ‘Finally, 20 years too late, Scotland has woken up to the fact Finlay was one of the great artists of the 20th century,’ says Ingleby. ‘Our show felt very true to Ian’s spirit and the combination of subversive humour and poetic seriousness seemed to strike a chord with people.’
As Ingleby makes clear, there are no plans for the gallery to rest on its laurels in 2013. ‘We’re looking forward to solo shows for Katie Paterson, Peter Liversidge and the brilliant Brazilian Iran do Espirito Santo. We’re also working on a series of very short, connected shows that will leave people exhausted and stimulated in equal measure.’ (Allan Radcliffe)
22 THE LIST 13 Dec 2012–24 Jan 2013